Half a Robot

Mermay - Days 1-4 - dunkleosteus, jellyfish, leviathan, gurnard

Finally started doing some of Mermay, this is the first 4 days. I want to do whole spreads for each page this time, which means combining prompts.

I think all the fish are pretty identifiable. I made the leviathan an orca, but longer. And I thought a battle scene would be cool for it. Jellyfish is a mage, while the dunkleosteus and gurnard are tanking.

Apriltecture - Day 30 - Industrial

Sorry for the delay again, blegh, but such is life. On the other hand, look! It’s the last piece for Apriltecture. My sister got me a scanner recently, so maybe I’ll try to scan all the pages. We shall see.

This is the American Can Lofts, an apartment complex in Northside Cincinnati (the Paris of America). Obviously built inside a defunct factory. The factory made the machines that make cans, but didn’t make cans itself. Closed in 1978, was occasionally rented out for small stuff and as a warehouse until 2005 when it was bought and then renovated and reopened in 2011 as an apartment complex (I find it rather simple).

Apriltecture - Day 29 - Retro

Man, could not get the angles to cooperate today, but Kest La Vye as the French say, probably.

This is the Waffle Hut from season 2 of Fargo the Tv Series. Every season of Fargo is actually based on my life, I’m the true story part of it actually. They take some embellishments, obviously. The real story doesn’t involve any actual murder, shockingly. But the rest is largely true. Especially the miracles and magic and aliens and ghosts.

Today’s music started with New Fang by Them Crooked Vultures and ended with You Girls by the archduke himself, Franz Ferdinand.

Apriltecture - Day 28 - Waterfront

More markers today. This ended up being larger than I originally intended and the right side stadium started to get cut off lol.

This is Cincinnati, the Paris of America. The bridge here was designed by the same dude who made the Brooklyn Bridge. If you get a close look you can see it extremely clearly.

Today’s music was largely a combination of Panic Shack (Tit School, Lazy, and Personal Best) and Lambrini Girls (Cuntology 101, No Homo, and Cult of Celebrity). Favorite lines are “I didn’t get straight As, I got Double Ds!” and “learning how to let go is cunty/ having cum on my shirt is cunty/ setting boundaries is cunty.”

Apriltecture - Day 27 - Fortification

Did a lot of markering today. Hope the dark green reads as water as well.

This is the Murud Janjira, a fort off the coast of western India, and was built in the 1500s to protect a community from pirates. I believe the original builders were Hindu, but that ownership passed hands a few times and was controlled by a Muslim kingdom as well. Not well versed in the history of India. But it’s a cool looking fort. I know the name is Arabic in origin.

Apriltecture - Day 26 - Candyland

Wasn’t super feeling this one so only drew so much.

This is the candy kingdom from Adventure Time. Honestly need to rewatch this show, it’s been forever, and I need to watch the new show too, with Fiona and Cake. I thought there was a connection between Adventure Time and Dana Terrace, but I couldn’t find it on a quick search. Wanted to mention Knights of Guinevere, a show she’s making that absolutely fucks.

Drew while listening to City Council of Darkness season of Dimension 20, only on Dropout.

Apriltecture - Day 25 - Library

Wanted to do a speed draw today. Past couple days I’ve let stuff get out of my grasp, so trying to catch up on other stuff, so today was a quicker piece.

This is the library at Trinity College Dublin. This library holds the Book of Kells, which is an incredibly beautiful illuminated manuscript of the gospels. The college itself was built to strengthen the British colonization of Ireland, but I think its colonial history is more of a historical note these days. Also Oscar Wilde went there. So that’s cool and gay.

Since I was drawing a library from a religious college I started with “Here’s Your Future” by The Thermals. The song is part of a concept album where the US is overtaken by Christo-fascists. Thank the lord on high that that’s not relevant these days.

> ask the people if it's objects or gambling

> they don't understand

> pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is objects and what is gambling

> they laugh and say "it's a good collectible sir"

> look up how to buy a collectible

Labubus are blind bags but they're also blind bags with some of the most insane dark patterns stacked on top. The online store for them has a thing where they tell you what you got the second you order it online so that you can immediately try again if you didn't get the thing you wanted.